How to Search AW boards

Author: * Belay Fabius - 6 Posts on this thread out of 41 Posts sitewide.
Date: Oct 2, 2003 - 06:32

ON SEARCH ENGINES AT AW
I found the answer to my own question. This is a long post.
But there is a challenge which I haven't figured out yet at the bottom.
If you can do that, perhaps you need a reward of some kind. I don't know
if we can reward financially here. Perhaps some other thing..

Here we go. This is the engine which searches Arachne group only

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<form action="/aw/BoardSearch" method="post">

<input type="text" name="searchString" value=""></input>
<input type="submit" value="Search Arachne"></input>

<input type="hidden" name="groupid" value="74740"></input>

</form>

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Test the above with "Belay" or something like that. Notice the text
"belay" written on the new window as if you wrote it.

Now modify the groupid to search across the whole AW. Just Leave it empty.

Try it out with "Jot Ariston" or something like that. Below is the code

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<form action="/aw/BoardSearch" method="post">

<input type="text" name="searchString" value=""></input>
<input type="submit" value="Search Arachne"></input>

<input type="hidden" name="groupid" value=""></input>

</form>

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Challenge Question:

Build a drop down which search the groups you belong. For instance AzureEyes belongs
to the following group and here are the groupid for each ( to see the groupid mouse
over the link and read on the status bar the last number)

Group Name groupid

Arachne Web 74740

The Curia 190095

Eternal Gods, Eternal Lives 159603

KMT 31833

The Alexandria Library 42443

The Egypt Gold Launch Festival 36371

Women of the Two Lands 31508

Ancient Expressions 96392

Exotikos 36902

Seven Wonders 73675

Here is how they did it at codeeave.com for mulitple search engines

Sample this beautiful machine.